Camera array
OwnerMichael Shawn Lawler, Ian Sharplesinventors
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Abstract
A plurality of outward-facing cameras, arranged in nodal clusters surrounding and mounted to the top plate of a plate structure, with the plate structure having an elevated platform for an additional upward-facing camera. The nodal clusters and the configuration of clusters on the top plate enable overlaps in coverage between clusters and more informationally dense coverage within each cluster.
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A camera array system comprising a plurality of cameras, with the plurality of cameras comprising a first camera, a second camera, and a third camera, with the first camera having a first optical axis, the second camera having a second optical axis and the third camera having a third optical axis;
- a. with each camera of the plurality of cameras configured to mount to a moving vehicle;
- b. with the first optical axis and the second optical axis each angled between approximately 30 degrees and approximately 75 degrees upward from a ground along which the moving vehicle is moving;
- c. with the third optical axis angled approximately 90 degrees upward from the ground along which the moving vehicle is moving;
- d. with the first and second camera being disposed approximately equidistantly around a center point, with the third camera being disposed at the center point;
- e. with footage from the third camera configured to be stitched together with footage from the first and second camera.
A camera array system comprising a plurality of cameras;
- a. with the plurality of cameras comprising a first camera, a second camera, a third camera, and a fourth camera, with the first camera having a first optical axis, the second camera having a second optical axis, the third camera having a third optical axis, and the fourth camera having a fourth optical axis;
- b. with the first optical axis, second optical axis, third optical axis, and fourth optical axis having a point of intersection;
- c. with the plurality of cameras configured to mount to a moving vehicle;
- d. with the first, second, and third optical axis each angled between approximately 30 degrees and approximately 75 degrees upward from a ground along which the moving vehicle is moving;
- e. with the fourth optical axis angled approximately 90 degrees upward from the ground along which the moving vehicle is moving;
- f. with the first, second, and third cameras being disposed approximately equidistantly around a center point, with the fourth camera being disposed at the center point;
- g. with footage from the fourth camera configured to be stitched together with footage from the first, second camera, and third camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.